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George Oppen

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Things explain each other, not themselves.


— George Oppen


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A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.


— George Oppen


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A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.


— George Oppen


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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.


— George Oppen


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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.


— George Oppen


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The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.


— George Oppen


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There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.


— George Oppen


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Truth, also is the pursuit of it.


— George Oppen


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The short-lived publishing venture managed to publish works by William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. George Oppen: Man and Poet (Man/Woman and Poet Series) (Man and Poet Series) National Poetry Foundation 1981. By 1942 Oppen was deferred from military service while working in the defense industry.

He returned to poetry — and to the United States — in 1958 and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

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